No blogging since last Thurs

Hi folks, I haven been able to post anything since thurs. a lot of things happened bet den & now.

qiqi's been sick & had a hospital stay.

and i've been fighting a flu / fever tat's been bothering mi since Sat so i've been downing lotsa fluid, sleeping before 1am & so far, i have managed to recover from a sore throat tat was beginning & keep the fever at bay.

yup, got lotsa materials tat i wana post. will prob catch up over the wkend.

till den, hooever reads tis, stay happy & chirpy, k?

cheers,
urs truly...Liv

Lunch at Tuk-Tuk

tracy came down & had lunch wif us tdy. we had a feast at Tuk-Tuk & here're the fotos.

juz looking at the pics makes mi drool!

Morning Sun

weather's beautiful tdy & i took a shot of the neighourhood wif the bridge, basking in sunshine.

MJ & reading

the 2 major activities of our bintan trip, besides excessive nua-ing, muz be mentioned.

MJ
H has brought along her travel MJ set which was quite tough to play as the tiles were really tiny. of course, it was a lot better den MJ cards.

slight problem we encountered in the first game was, the set were missing 4 tiles! it has no "animals". forced by circumstances to innovate & overcome constraints ( 所谓穷则变,变则通), we decided to use the 2 spare tiles as animals. at least got more chance to get "flower".

the flower were very special. there were 春夏秋冬 and 梅兰菊竹。 the latter is especially hard to remember so i wrote it on the paper tat we used to line the table.

Reading
well, as i mentioned before, i didn't bring any book but on the 2nd nite, HQ was too tired to play MJ. While LJ & HQ settled in early to bed, YT & I stayed downstairs & read. I stole LJ's slightly sinful which she was finishing while YT read Harry Potter.

After some time, i looked up from the book & was surprised tat YT has dozed off. Is Harry Potter tat bad tat it induces sleep?

Drinking
we had champage tat we bought at DFS on the way out, on the 1st nite, over the MJ table. it was very nice & smooth but it was a bad idea to do it over MJ. I became so sleepy tat i had my eyes closed throughout the games.

the weather was good & it gets rather when outdoors. after walking on the beach, i enjoyed my nice cold draft. the following day, after sunbathing, i went back to the villa for my beer & almost finished it all juz walking back to the pool.

Gers checking out from wonderful holiday

well, here's a bonus picture tat i took of the gers while they were engrossed in checking the bill.

i was very happy to leave all the work to them as i relax on hols...hehe....YT oso had the honour of working out the sums for us.

anyway, to cut things short, it's been a most enjoyable & wonderful holiday....now why didn't we do tis earlier?? i tink a lot of it has to do wif the fact tat we are so familiar wif each other & we know each other so well. nobody is embarassed at not being able to lock the bathroom door & having juz the shower curtain pulled while the rest walked in & out of the bathroom.

and it's strange how all of us are so different yet able to strike a balance. like i've got a herd mentality as YT puts it. i can't stand solituary for long. but HQ is such a loner sometimes. ok, i'll correct myself, we are not juz different but quite extreme in certain ways.

can't wait for our next holiday together!

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Seafood Tragedy

Further to my posting earlier tis mth abt seafood poetry, tragedy has struck!

I had a shock when i came back to my desk after a long meeting to find an email from HQ wif the subject as "Tragedy".

luckily we oredi had seafood at Bintan : P

HQ 11/24/2005 02:23 PM
To: Livia Ang
Subject: Tragedy

Ladies,
Today is a sad day for me, I lost the Jumbo Voucher. Sob sob…
‘In smooth I know why I am so sad’… sign.. now really see food only

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Friday, November 04, 2005

Seafood Poetry
my mood has changed for the better coz of tis fri afternoon humour from HQ. wah! i didn't noe my fren got so much "ink" in her. i thot she onli noe "I know not why I am so sad"....haha

My heart so desire, my body quiver,
Along came this offer, to quench my desire
Jumbo $50 voucherSeafood oh seafood,
I want to eat seafood and not just see food...

What Kind of Pie Are You?

You Are Apple Pie

You're the perfect combo of comforting and traditional Those who like you crave security

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Machiavellian-new word of the day

You Are Somewhat Machiavellian

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How Boyish or Girlish Are You?

You Are 60% Boyish and 40% Girlish

You are pretty evenly split down the middle - a total eunuch.Okay, kidding about the eunuch part. But you do get along with both sexes. You reject traditional gender roles. However, you don't actively fight them. You're just you. You don't try to be what people expect you to be.

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Colour of my heart

Your Heart Is Blue

Love is a doing word for you. You know it's love when you treat each other well. You are a giving lover, but you don't give too much. You expect something in return. Your flirting style: Friendly Your lucky first date: Lunch at an outdoor cafe Your dream lover: Is both generous and selfish What you bring to relationships: Loyalty

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My Power Color

Your Power Color Is Gold

At Your Highest: You are engrossed in passions that mentally stimulate you. At Your Lowest: You seek thrills and neglect what's important in your life. In Love: You see dating as adventure and approach it with an open attitude. How You're Attractive: Your passion for life makes others passionate about you. Your Eternal Question: "Am I Having Fun?"

What's Your Power Color?

Les Miserables Quiz

Do you hear the people sing?

You are a Les Mis Freak!

You Know all there is to know!

I give you two thumbs up!

Les Miserables Quiz: Do you know the play?

What kind of a freaky mother are you?

You're a girl power mommy! You love to be girly,
but you're no pushover. Your kids are learning
that gender differences don't have to mean
gender inequality. You've taken back pink, and
you don't care who knows it!

What kind of a freaky mother are you?

Southpark character

tis is cute. isn't my southpark character beautiful?

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Freaking Cold Weather & Bus

weather's really cold these couple of days especially last nite. i was freezing in the mornings.

it's quite chilly in the office but i find tat it's better to juz brave the cold in my tube top den to use a shawl coz my body will get used to the cold after a while. but when i wore my beautiful orange osmose cardi yest afternoon, i felt the cold much more acutely when i took off the cardi.

muz mention the freaking cold bus i took tis morning. all the windows were fogged up & i tink the passengers on the bus were all shivering wif cold. i had to wrap my shawl around mi for the short journey to the mrt station.

三世书

PS. i am editing tis posting i did yest coz i was very sleepy when blogging & gosh...i was spouting nonsense & making bad grammer mistakes.
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i first heard abt the 三世书 from my mum yrs ago. i knew tat the 阿姑 at the temple at Lor 7 which we go to regularly, could interpret the 三世书. i've been wanting to consult her but it's juz one of the things tat i nbr realli got ard to.

wat's the 三世书 abt? based on my experience, from my eight characters, she flipped thru the book & explained hoo i was in my previous life, wat i am in tis present life & wat i'll b in my next life. she oso touched on things tat will happen to mi within the next 3 yrs. it's like a very brief life summary wif a couple of details thrown in.

i was told repeatedly tat i shouldn't marry young as i am too smart for my pants or rather i'm too smart for a pair of ladies' pants. i was a man in my previous life & will again be a man in my next life. well teamie, i guess ur "man's mind" applies to mi too. sigh. when did the intellect of a ger become a hindrance to marriage?

anyway, the gender thingy became a discussion of karma when i discussed tis wif HQ. she has 2 explanations for tis :
1. i accumulated bad karma in my last lifetime hence i became a woman in my present life & i'm accumulating good karma now to be a man again in my next life OR
2. i accumulated good karma in my last life to become a woman in my present but i must be accumulating bad karma to be a man in my next life...haha

Dinner Chez Moi

Tonite's dinner is quite good, considering tat we ate out @ 鼎泰丰 Tampines Mall the nite before. but as usual, mum cooked too much rice. Poor Shubin & mum will be eating the overnite rice tomolo. Fried rice, anyone? Sigh, sometimes i feel like telling mum tat i'm not eating at home so she'll cook less rice & i can juz eat the dishes.

Menu for 22nd Nov 05
Herbal chicken
Stir-fried veges & mushrooms. There were abalone mushrooms & 金针菇.
Pork & mushroom in soy sauce
Tofu soup tat i don't take

Menu for 23rd Nov 05
猪肚汤
Pork & mushroom in soy sauce
Fried veges
Steamed fish

Spice Restaurant

After moving out onto the beach to take snapshots of the red moon, i turned back to face the restaurant & took a pict of Spice Restaurant from the beach.

Dinner was nice and the ambience was very good. they had a live "band" moving from table to table, serenading the diners. we waited for our turn but they didn't come around to our table of 4 gers.

the lead singer was good & did all his numbers in an opera-like singing style. he did english songs, chinese songs & even a hokkien song 爱拼才会赢!

Red Moon

This shot was taken by me after I walked onto the beach & quite a distance from the restaurant. Can you see my shadow in the foreground of the picture?









Interesting phenomenon tat we saw at the Bintan beach on the 2nd nite.

my camera was dead so i tried capturing the nbr seen before colour of the moon wif my little fone. in the first 4 shots, there's a slight red tinge to the moon. well, off camera, the moon was bright red in colour...totally weird looking...looks like end of the world is coming.




in the last shot, the clouds cleared & the moon was again silvery white & really bright.

Dinner @ Spice Restaurant Mayang Sari

on the 2nd nite, we had dinner @ Spice Restaurant.

they haf a new alfresco area which was a bit too dark for dining or reading the menu, in comfort but great for chilling out.

Us at the resort

Just some fotos we took at the resort after breakfast & before heading down to the beach.

Slightly Sinful

i mentioned tis book in my previous post.

i din bring any book to bintan, onli my crocheting. luckily LJ had brought 2 bks along. so on the 2nd nite, while the rest were bz reading their books, i started on LJ's trashy novel Slightly Sinful.

the book was readable and even though the story was set in regency england, parts of it is still true & applicable to modern day.

the heroine & hero of the story is a diplomat suffering from amnesia and his lady saviour who was staying wif prostitutes. the 2 develops a friendship which is nearly destroyed when they succumb to lust one nite. which explains my point abt fuck buddy nbr being ur close fren.

but being a trashy novel, all's well tat ends well so of course they get thru all obstacles & end up together...ok, ending's not tat unpredictable.

the best part of the story is when the villian appears at the end of the story & gets bashed up by the prostitutes. tat's my fav part!

Can man & woman ever be friends?

well, wat triggered tis thot was an old posting i saw on bm's blog abt fuck buddy.

of course such a controversial topic set off a series of comments. general gist of it tat i got was :

• tis term has been in existent for some time
• as gers get more independent ( marie terms it as "women have evolved" ) , they are able to treat the act of sex without love & purely as fulfilment of physical needs
• even though it lays claim to be "without investment of feelings", one party is bound to be hurt so dun play if u can't afford to

coincidentally, the results of a recent survey abt pre-marital sex was shown on TV tonite. a higher percentage of gers den boys were for it. surprising? hardly,

i oso read an article in a chinese magazine abt one nite stands & women hoo get addicted to it.

i guess my point is, beyond the glossy surface of our "conservative" society, lies decadence & debauchery.

someone commented tat having fuck buddy is like including sex as one of the things tat u do wif ur best friend of the opposite sex, in addition to shopping & dining. which brings us back to the question of : can man & woman ever be just friends?

i am oso tinking along the line of when harry met sally. frankly, i tink man & woman can only be good friends but they can't be best friends unless he's gay or she's lesbian. in my case, i treat my close guy friends as jie-mei which strikes them off the love interest list forever.

how do u draw the line bet buddies & friends tat may develop into romantic interests? i dun tink gers can help falling in love wif a constant guy friend hoo's always there for her.

but fuck buddy should nbr be ur good friend coz it'll onli ruin the friendship. tat's my 2 cents worth on the matter. will oso comment on the book Slightly Sinful tat i read on tis trip which proves tis point. unless u r a character in a trashy novel, such reckless acts of succumbing to physical wants will onli destroy watever friendship or positive feelings 2 ppl had.

ok, i need a distraction after spending the entire day on bintan postings & i haven't finished! anyway, it's late now & i need to sleep if i am to get up in time tomolo so tat's all folks, for yest, sun 20th nov.

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Footprints in the sand

Us on the beach

us walking along the beach

Archery

we gers tried our hand at archery. not as easy as it seems coz the bow is damn heavy!

but i'm happy to report tat we got a few bullseye bet us. looks like we got potential to make good markswomen sia...haha

Gers at breakfast

LJ's fav bread!

it's coated wif sugar on top wif some cheese shavings.